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he was a special education student. his parents issued a statement. we take great solace that dylan died in the loving arms of his favorite teacher, the speal education teacher, anne marie murphy. the teachers in that school, the principal, psychologist, the teachers that die protecting their children, saving their children, comforting their children, those who survived, they are true heroes and they have not received the recognition, in my judgment, that they deserve. i point out that every one of them is a public-school teacher, a group that has been condemned, vilified, and denigrat by all sorts of people. i do wonder about this nexus we are making about mental illness and violence. we have had a number of gun violence in the district of columbia where people have been killed by firearms, prince george's county as well. are you suggesting to me that everyone who pulled a trigger is mentally ill? is that the suggestion? >> no. >> in mass killings, if you look at the virginia tecguide, and jared lghner, he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, w
he was a special education student. his parents issued a statement. we take great solace that dylan died in the loving arms of his favorite teacher, the speal education teacher, anne marie murphy. the teachers in that school, the principal, psychologist, the teachers that die protecting their children, saving their children, comforting their children, those who survived, they are true heroes and they have not received the recognition, in my judgment, that they deserve. i point out that every...
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it's something educators call differentiated learning. some students work on basic skills while others advance to more challenging lessons. the learning lab allows a school to hire six fewer teachers, which rocketship says results in savings of up to half a million dollars. that money is used to pay teachers higher salaries, fund academic deans who help teachers get better, and train principals for future rocketship schools. but one thing the savings are not used for: art and music classes. >> i wish we could have art and music in the school but at the same time if you want your child to have that in their life you can make the effort to try and get it aftescho or on the weekends. >> reporter: the learning lab saves schools a lot of money, but there's just one problem: they're not really working. >> there's definitely an aspect of us kind of not knowing enough about what's going on in learning lab to be able to use that in our classrooms. >> we don't yet get data that says, "okay, teach this differently tomorrow because of what happened h
it's something educators call differentiated learning. some students work on basic skills while others advance to more challenging lessons. the learning lab allows a school to hire six fewer teachers, which rocketship says results in savings of up to half a million dollars. that money is used to pay teachers higher salaries, fund academic deans who help teachers get better, and train principals for future rocketship schools. but one thing the savings are not used for: art and music classes....
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yesrday, e at wnith education secretary arne duncan for the special. it was the former chicago public school superintendent's first interview since the killings. here's part of their conversation. >> secretary duncan where does the responsibility lie for action here? >> it lies on all of us. all of us as parents, as community leaders, as religious leaders, as political leaders. no one gets to pass on this. and this is to the a time to point fingers or lay blame. often these things, there are lots of inclinations to do that but this is complex and anyone who wants to say there is a simple answer here i think does a great disservice to the complexity and urgency of fundamentally trying to make our country a safer place for our children. >> ifill: the president has asked the committee that you will be on, that vice president biden is going to spearhead to come up with solution or approaches within a month, before the state of the union speech. do you worry that the outrage is going to fade before that happens? i don'torry about the outrage fading. i worry
yesrday, e at wnith education secretary arne duncan for the special. it was the former chicago public school superintendent's first interview since the killings. here's part of their conversation. >> secretary duncan where does the responsibility lie for action here? >> it lies on all of us. all of us as parents, as community leaders, as religious leaders, as political leaders. no one gets to pass on this. and this is to the a time to point fingers or lay blame. often these things,...
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were already here working on capito hill but you have talked about your ideal demographic -- highly educated and affluent. diyou look at starting and other markrket >> it made sent. i did a survey about 432 respondents. i did it on the streets o downtown washington, d.c., and thatat helped me to understand where the mamarkets was i would not have done it anywhere ee. >> did you wish you had a business degree? >> t the theology degree is fa more valuable. >> do you pray a lot at the end of the day >> a better understanding of god an people. >> hans hess, always interesting to me people like you. thanks so much for joining us on "whington buness report." coming up, our rndtable. >> welcome back. on number of the week, 2.15, e district of columbia's population growth. putting the distrt in second place nationwide for its growth rate behind only north dakota. the growth continues the trend in recent yeaears, and the mar is welcoming the news saying it is a statement that people are voting with their feet and responding t to improvements in education, infrastructure, and city services. will have
were already here working on capito hill but you have talked about your ideal demographic -- highly educated and affluent. diyou look at starting and other markrket >> it made sent. i did a survey about 432 respondents. i did it on the streets o downtown washington, d.c., and thatat helped me to understand where the mamarkets was i would not have done it anywhere ee. >> did you wish you had a business degree? >> t the theology degree is fa more valuable. >> do you pray a...
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he was a spepecial-education uden his p parents issued a statement. we take great solace that dylan died in the loving arms of his favorite teacher, a special- education teacher, , an marie murphy. 52, mother of four. the teachers of that school, the principa psychologist, the teacher that by protecting their children, saving their children, comforting theirir children, those th survived, they arerue heroes. theyave not received the recognition that they deserve. i would point out, everyone of ththem is a public schoolteacher. a group that has been c condemned vilified, and denigrated by all sorts of people. >> i do wonder about this nexus we are making between n mental illness and violence. we have had a number of gun -- violence where people were killed with fire arms, in prince george's county, too. are you suggesting that everyone who pulls a trigger is mentally ill? is that the suggestion? >> no. >> in mass killings, you look at jerry loughner, virginia tech loughner was diagngnosed as a paranoid schizophric, which you could see on day one. i am
he was a spepecial-education uden his p parents issued a statement. we take great solace that dylan died in the loving arms of his favorite teacher, a special- education teacher, , an marie murphy. 52, mother of four. the teachers of that school, the principa psychologist, the teacher that by protecting their children, saving their children, comforting theirir children, those th survived, they arerue heroes. theyave not received the recognition that they deserve. i would point out, everyone of...
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then in the weeks since the shooting massacre in a town that left hand 20 children and six educators dead, we've been hearing for plenty calling for new gun control laws but little from the nra until now. in a bizarre meeting, the head of the nra said the solution to gun vie lerchs in this country is simple. more guns. armed officers, in fact, in every school. it's the same line we've heard from nra, but has the country's relationship with guns fundamentally changed since newtown? and what we saw is yet another symptom of a real problem for the gop. they don't believe in compromise and they've lurched too far to the right. >>> plus replacing hillary clinton, john kerry gets the job he's waited for his whole life. president obama tapped john kerry as the next secretary of state. >>> and let me finish with the new movie about getting bin laden and how one person can make a huge difference. >>> we begin with the fiscal cliff. david corn is the editor of mother cliff. gentlemen, president obama tonight said he had spoken with speaker boehner in addition to meeting with senate majority le
then in the weeks since the shooting massacre in a town that left hand 20 children and six educators dead, we've been hearing for plenty calling for new gun control laws but little from the nra until now. in a bizarre meeting, the head of the nra said the solution to gun vie lerchs in this country is simple. more guns. armed officers, in fact, in every school. it's the same line we've heard from nra, but has the country's relationship with guns fundamentally changed since newtown? and what we...
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we have to educate and people about the risks. just as we have educated about the harms of tobacco and the dangers of alcohol impaired driving, that information needs to be communicated, not in a threatening way or the scare tactic way, but it needs to be communicated in a direct way by parents and other adults. they can provide that kind of leadership. as the president has noted, we have changed attitudes regarding smoking and alcohol impaired driving. we can do the same when it comes to the findings around drugs. we recognize the impact drug use has on this country and to many of us have been touched by lives cut short by an overdose. futures that have been significantly reduced or impacted by substance abuse. unfortunately, drugs hold back to many americans from living up to the best things that they want to achieve in their lives. today's findings give us some insight, information that will be used to develop evidence based policies, not the policy of ideology or the policies of in which way the winds happen to be blowing on t
we have to educate and people about the risks. just as we have educated about the harms of tobacco and the dangers of alcohol impaired driving, that information needs to be communicated, not in a threatening way or the scare tactic way, but it needs to be communicated in a direct way by parents and other adults. they can provide that kind of leadership. as the president has noted, we have changed attitudes regarding smoking and alcohol impaired driving. we can do the same when it comes to the...
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there is so much to be done on jobs, income, education, and energy. we are a week away from one of the worst tragedies in memory. so we have got work to do on gun safety. a host of other issues. these are all challenges we can meet. these are all colleges we have to meet, if we want our kids to grow up in america that is full of opportunity and possibility, as much opportunity and possibility that our parents and our grandparents left for us. but we are only going to be able to do it together. we are going to have to find some common ground. the challenge we have got right now is that the american people are a lot more sensible and a lot more thoughtful, and much more willing to compromise and give and sacrifice and act responsibly, than their elected representatives are. that is a problem. there is a mismatch between how everybody else is thinking about these problems, democrats and republicans up side of this town, and how folks are acting here. we have to get the aligned. and we only have 10 days to do that. i hope every member of congress is think
there is so much to be done on jobs, income, education, and energy. we are a week away from one of the worst tragedies in memory. so we have got work to do on gun safety. a host of other issues. these are all challenges we can meet. these are all colleges we have to meet, if we want our kids to grow up in america that is full of opportunity and possibility, as much opportunity and possibility that our parents and our grandparents left for us. but we are only going to be able to do it together....
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services. >> if we can dig down into education a bit more because i think the disparity in our education system, the haves and have nots in terms of education is another major barrier in terms of keeping the american dream alive. our education system has basically worked the same from inception. the classroom that my daughter will be in looks like the one i was in. looks like the one my parents were in. it seems like that we may may be on the verge of a technological revolution. some example i will give you is these massive open online courses where high level institutions like harvard and mit are opening up courses to thousands of people around the world, typically free and typically no credit given. students are grading each other because there so many you could never hope to have a professor grade all the students's work. what sort of innovations do you see transforming the classroom in the way that education is delivered? >> the main thing about the internet-driven revolution and every sector of the economy. up becomes down and down becomes up. people should be doing their homework i
services. >> if we can dig down into education a bit more because i think the disparity in our education system, the haves and have nots in terms of education is another major barrier in terms of keeping the american dream alive. our education system has basically worked the same from inception. the classroom that my daughter will be in looks like the one i was in. looks like the one my parents were in. it seems like that we may may be on the verge of a technological revolution. some...
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>> a week from the shooting massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead, we have heard plenty of people calling for new gun control laws but very little from the national rifle association until now. in a bizarre news conference, the head of the nchl ra said the solution of gun violence in this country is simple, more guns. armed officers in every school. it is the same line we have heard before from the nra. has the country's relationship with guns fundamentally changed since newtown. what we saw last night from house republicans is yet another symptom of a real problem for the gop. they don't believe in compromise. they have lurnlged too far to the right. president obama tapped kerry to be the next secretary of state. let me finish with the great new movie about getting bin laden and how one person can make a huge difference. we begin with where things stand on the fiscal cliff. david corn is the washington bureau chief for mother jones magazine and msnbc contributor, jared bernstein was chief economic adviser to vice president biden. gentlemen, president obama tonight said
>> a week from the shooting massacre that left 20 children and six educators dead, we have heard plenty of people calling for new gun control laws but very little from the national rifle association until now. in a bizarre news conference, the head of the nchl ra said the solution of gun violence in this country is simple, more guns. armed officers in every school. it is the same line we have heard before from the nra. has the country's relationship with guns fundamentally changed since...
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he is saving it. >> you're compensated for other things like education and skillsets. i don't think we should scount the blue-collar. neil: no one is discounting blue-collar worker i find it odd in right to wk states, melissa, expand on this, they have been experiencing a job boom for the most part. they had seenob growth. and those that do not exercise the same powers to be apart from unions are not. >> they're also making the argument for being more automated. she is saying it is dangerous and wages aren't high enough. that seems like a reason to put more machines to work because put the machines in danger. if wages are low we have fewer workers the wages would rise. seems like the market could take care of this particular problem at the ports if we would le itork rather than having a union in the middle artificially gumming up the works. neil: we can go back and forth on the need for this but i guess i'm talking about here post the election, you can't argue, melissa, you feel unions did carry the president over the finish line. >> of course. neil: they got out of th
he is saving it. >> you're compensated for other things like education and skillsets. i don't think we should scount the blue-collar. neil: no one is discounting blue-collar worker i find it odd in right to wk states, melissa, expand on this, they have been experiencing a job boom for the most part. they had seenob growth. and those that do not exercise the same powers to be apart from unions are not. >> they're also making the argument for being more automated. she is saying it is...
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out -- >> are you saying one educator in one school. >> and my point is that one educator with a gun, i do not believe that enhances the safety of the school. what it does is puts a gun in the school, and as was mentioned, that person can be overpowered. whether or not there's got to be a greater way to do this? it's just not right, and where he need to tackle it. >> some republicans have been vet ode -- the sorts of as you're suggesting and having armed teachers is good? >> you know what? no, it doesn't make a difference. if you want constructive progress on this issue, you know, you need to start thinking about the safety of school employees. hey, connecticut had a locked door, they had signs on the doors, they have strict gun laws in connecticut. the perfect ideal situation that the nea representative is explaining, well, you know what? they think distort through and teachers and students were killed. so, you know, his approach has obviously shown it doesn't work. in utah we've shown it does work. we've had 12 years of history of no school shootings and nobody being overpowered, gu
out -- >> are you saying one educator in one school. >> and my point is that one educator with a gun, i do not believe that enhances the safety of the school. what it does is puts a gun in the school, and as was mentioned, that person can be overpowered. whether or not there's got to be a greater way to do this? it's just not right, and where he need to tackle it. >> some republicans have been vet ode -- the sorts of as you're suggesting and having armed teachers is good?...
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what you have to realize, the more education you have, the lower your unemployment rate and the more likely you are to keep that job and to be making money. take advantage ever everything your employer offers to you. i had my entire mba and finance paid for by my employener my 20s. look for opportunities and take advantage of every one of them. it will mean money in the short run and scpreer life-changing alternatives for you in the long run. >> heather: this tip we can all do -- increase your permanent retirement savings. >> people get confused between temporary and permanent savings. i am talking the money comes in and never comes out. young people have it on your side. you have the power of compounding and time on your side. if you could put in that extra $1,000 a year, that's $20 a week, you know, in 10 years, it doesn't sound like much, if you earn 6%, it's only $13,000. but if you go 20, 30, 40 years out and you are getting into retirement, that $1,000, if you put in $40,000, it's now $154,000. and if you get the employer to match on top of that, you might have double that. ver
what you have to realize, the more education you have, the lower your unemployment rate and the more likely you are to keep that job and to be making money. take advantage ever everything your employer offers to you. i had my entire mba and finance paid for by my employener my 20s. look for opportunities and take advantage of every one of them. it will mean money in the short run and scpreer life-changing alternatives for you in the long run. >> heather: this tip we can all do -- increase...
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i don't think teachers go to get their education to do that. they want -- that's why you need to have separate resource officers and armed guards to have that protection. >> let me ask you one final question, and that is, where does this end? let's say, fine, people want to put armed professionals inside schools to protect children. there was a movie theater shot up in aurora and a shopping mall shot up in tucson. where does it end? can you arm every place that a gunman might go? put ex-police officers, whatever? it seems never-ending. >> you're right. it's a problem we have in our society, and you know, movie theaters are making those decisions. many of them have retired police officers, off-duty police officers, malls have the same thing. so should we say we're not going-to-the sagoing to have the same type of protection going to school? certainly there's some schools and there's going to be some parts of society that say we don't want to do that investment. we'll take the risk. but let's look simply at the schools right now, what our focus i
i don't think teachers go to get their education to do that. they want -- that's why you need to have separate resource officers and armed guards to have that protection. >> let me ask you one final question, and that is, where does this end? let's say, fine, people want to put armed professionals inside schools to protect children. there was a movie theater shot up in aurora and a shopping mall shot up in tucson. where does it end? can you arm every place that a gunman might go? put...
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he has to save for his children's college education. perhaps for high school education. and certainly for any kind of retraining he may need. so it's not entirely clear that europeans have such a bad deal. >> the question here, it is a tough decision. we are deciding that we want less government, right. so the idea of whether you pay 35% or 39.6% as your marginal top tax rate is really code for a 35 or lower, i get less government. grover norquist leading the charge for tax increases say i want to drown government in the bathtub. >> here's the problem with that americans like government. what we have for the last 30 years is done is say we're going to have low taxes but we still want lots of government. we've made up the difference by borrowing. i think one part of what john boehner says, which is quite right. you can't keep doing this forever. at some point you've got to get that habit under control. now the problem is the republicans realize that large role for government is pretty popular. that's why they don't i'dfy specific cuts. >> they say we'll cut this amount of
he has to save for his children's college education. perhaps for high school education. and certainly for any kind of retraining he may need. so it's not entirely clear that europeans have such a bad deal. >> the question here, it is a tough decision. we are deciding that we want less government, right. so the idea of whether you pay 35% or 39.6% as your marginal top tax rate is really code for a 35 or lower, i get less government. grover norquist leading the charge for tax increases say...
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that's how education decisions should be made. but at the same time i do support the idea of consideration putting an armed patrol officer. my sister in atlanta works at a receiving desk, and she's not prepared or trained for dealing with someone coming into the school. i would hate to think of my sister or another teacher have been to stop someone from breaking into their school. so it is something to consider, what we learned from friday and the ensuing conversations, we need to put all options on the table. >> but lapierre is saying don't even skier the clips and some are saying clips should be considered here? >> that certainly will be debated the gun control advocates have been talking about this since the tragedy happened and it's something we will be discussing s. but as we have said we need to look how we tree and identify though with his mental illness and look at the responsibility of the entertainment industry, with the influence that has on people. so -- there's a lot of things. >> a lot of possibilities. >> certainly.
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to squeeze as much money as they can out of the family caring for a sick child you also want to see education provided for free and healthy food provided for free and shelter provided for free so when it comes to basic essentials before profit motive was not allowed within the confines of occupied and then nation facing economic desperation historic levels of wealth inequality in a rapidly disappearing social safety net occupy was the way forward a community in every city that conservatives as an example of what we as americans should be striving for during a time when wall street suits were choking the lives out of most of us but if you're an f.b.i. agent that occupied looked like something completely different to the f.b.i. occupy was a breeding ground for violence and domestic terrorism thanks to a freedom of information act request by the partnership for civil justice fund we now know that the occupy movement was a favorite target of the f.b.i. even before the movement got off the ground going all the way back to august two thousand and eleven a month before the occupation of zuccotti par
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. >> plus, keeping our kids safe, is arming educators the symptom or adding to the problem. >>> and can anyone beat sko brown? >>> good day. we're live in washington this afternoon. the lines of communication between the president, leaders of congress are open. whether those lines are used repeatedly over the next few days to reach a fiscal cliff deal is anybody's guess. joining me now for our daily fix, nbc's kelly o'donnell is live on capitol hill. kelly, i want to start with you. senator scott brown just tweeted out to all his followers that he was getting on a plane heading to washington. the president has apparently sent over a new deal to the senate. what can you tell us about this new fiscal cliff deal that president obama has sent over to senator leaders? >> well, the power of social media to get the word out. gop sources say in the conversation with the president, he indicated that he does have a bill he would like to bring forward to the hill today. they have not seen that. it would be a package to deal with averting the fiscal cliff. we can infer from that with what the presi
. >> plus, keeping our kids safe, is arming educators the symptom or adding to the problem. >>> and can anyone beat sko brown? >>> good day. we're live in washington this afternoon. the lines of communication between the president, leaders of congress are open. whether those lines are used repeatedly over the next few days to reach a fiscal cliff deal is anybody's guess. joining me now for our daily fix, nbc's kelly o'donnell is live on capitol hill. kelly, i want to...
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in massachusetts the idea was improving education, that's a liberal idea. and that didn't quite work, either. massachusetts has the best educated workforce in the country, but it had the 37th biggest growth in jobs. so you need policy consensus, some tax reduction, some investment and education, and some tax breaks that will help sort of states specialize in different industries and attract them. >> let's end where we started. some criticisms coming out from ips saying the president has left some things on the table here. the estate taxes one of those that they bring to bear here. they also talk about hedge fund managers specifically being ability to get favorable tax rates there, too. how has the administration done with this? >> it's sort of paralysis on this issue. you know, the administration -- the republicans -- what we seed with a fiscal cliff and what we saw in our series is the ability to create consense politically is hurting us tremendously, economically. the earlier guest was talking about how these are self-inflected problems, and that's what's
in massachusetts the idea was improving education, that's a liberal idea. and that didn't quite work, either. massachusetts has the best educated workforce in the country, but it had the 37th biggest growth in jobs. so you need policy consensus, some tax reduction, some investment and education, and some tax breaks that will help sort of states specialize in different industries and attract them. >> let's end where we started. some criticisms coming out from ips saying the president has...
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times in the head before going to sandy hook elementary and shooting 20 schoolchildren and six female educators. gun sales are on the increase. according to maryland state police, and in november there were more than 7200 gun purchase applications filed. >> we are projecting over 8200 purchase applications for december to be processed. >> more than 46,000 applications were processed and at the end of 2012, state police project at least 62,000 will be handled. troopers will not speculate on why, but some reasons are apparent. the holiday season, high-profile crimes, and lawmakers who advocate measures to change on lot. >> i think when people see school children slaughtered, they get the message that something has to change. that is our hope. >> according to fbi crime statistics, last year maryland had 398 murders. to hundred 62 were committed by people using firearms. 260 to happen by way of handguns. 3 by unknown firearms. >> i call on congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put an armed police officer in every single school. >> that is the security stance of t
times in the head before going to sandy hook elementary and shooting 20 schoolchildren and six female educators. gun sales are on the increase. according to maryland state police, and in november there were more than 7200 gun purchase applications filed. >> we are projecting over 8200 purchase applications for december to be processed. >> more than 46,000 applications were processed and at the end of 2012, state police project at least 62,000 will be handled. troopers will not...
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>>i will go with them on educational program. i've been on one before and they do wonderful work and i'm delighted they asked me to be a part of it. >> are you staying here in washington? >> no, of course not. i'm going home to california. you can do everything, you know, remotely now. there is no reason to put yourself in one place that you don't -- that you are leaving anyway. i will back b back in california. >> what are you going miss most about congress? >> it took me a while to realize that i would miss anything. i'm a person when the timing is right, i know i'm doing the right thing, but i'm going to miss my friendships. i'm going miss the excitement. this is an exciting place. i'm used to a lot of activity in my life. if i'm smart at all, i'm going to learn how to sit down, take things in, and not always be on the move. >> who are some of your best friends here in congress? >> without blinking my best friend is barbara lee and maxine waters. others like betty mccollum, when we go to dinner everyone gets nervous that somet
>>i will go with them on educational program. i've been on one before and they do wonderful work and i'm delighted they asked me to be a part of it. >> are you staying here in washington? >> no, of course not. i'm going home to california. you can do everything, you know, remotely now. there is no reason to put yourself in one place that you don't -- that you are leaving anyway. i will back b back in california. >> what are you going miss most about congress? >> it...
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any other, education, health, even tax cuts create more jobs than spending on defense. >> what about number of people in uniform, do you cut that back and if so, how much? >> well, again, what we are talking -- they have already begun to cut it back from the 2005/2006 level but not bringing it back to where you were on -- prior to our invasion of irrauk and afghanistan. we are saying take it back there. that's another 17,000. that's not that great a cut. >> and as far as boots on the ground, for future conflicts, i think we see them more as low-level conflicts but special forces, the things like that, do you think that this reduced footprint of the number of troops would fit into this kind of ideology? >> well, yes, it is, because we switch from counterinsurgency and nation building to counterterrorism and basically you do you use special forces. we have advocated a special forces budget go up that is comparatively small, only about $11 billion. rely more on unmanned planes than manned planes so called drones. yeah, you can actually be more effective. this is the direction that the c
any other, education, health, even tax cuts create more jobs than spending on defense. >> what about number of people in uniform, do you cut that back and if so, how much? >> well, again, what we are talking -- they have already begun to cut it back from the 2005/2006 level but not bringing it back to where you were on -- prior to our invasion of irrauk and afghanistan. we are saying take it back there. that's another 17,000. that's not that great a cut. >> and as far as boots...
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these kids are the most educated bunch in history and they will assume that they need more education in the fij. this economy handed milleninial lemons so they're acquiring skills to make career lemonade. if you're lucky enough to have a job right now, focus on what you get out of the experience more than what you get from the job itself. many young colleagues don't expect to stick around long enough to climb the ladder that more seasoned workers had
these kids are the most educated bunch in history and they will assume that they need more education in the fij. this economy handed milleninial lemons so they're acquiring skills to make career lemonade. if you're lucky enough to have a job right now, focus on what you get out of the experience more than what you get from the job itself. many young colleagues don't expect to stick around long enough to climb the ladder that more seasoned workers had
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you don't need people who need education denied education. >> zero cuts? >> no, not zero cuts. and we talked about even john boehner take saying yes in terms of age of eligibility to get into medicare, that's a major step for our country. it would reduce spending. >> republicans are playing the same game. i'm not saying republicans are squeaky clean on this. i think some of them are guilty, as well. but no one has the guts to do what everyone campaigned on. everyone campaigned on restoring fiscal sanity and blah, blah, blah. no one's got the guts to do it. >> let me answer brent's point. juan said something 20 me a moment ago i want to aggression. juan, you said maybe i'm out of touch. maybe i am, juan, it's immoral what we are doing by stealing our children's money. and, juan, i don't think we are able to pay it back. and there's nobody in washington in this whole debate, and brent is right, there's some republicans, as well, that are just willing to make any deal to make this go away. >> oh, gosh. >> but to steal from our children this way and smash open their piggy banks is
you don't need people who need education denied education. >> zero cuts? >> no, not zero cuts. and we talked about even john boehner take saying yes in terms of age of eligibility to get into medicare, that's a major step for our country. it would reduce spending. >> republicans are playing the same game. i'm not saying republicans are squeaky clean on this. i think some of them are guilty, as well. but no one has the guts to do what everyone campaigned on. everyone campaigned...
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it is away for everybody to give to the kids' education. i think this is brilliant, and until you why. here is how much to a spin on holiday cards. what a waste of money. i mean, look at that. you have nnot know much money -- how much money never even gets used? but if rickey use that money instd for something that is really needed linkage among the school. it seems to me to be just eight such -- much more debt idea. you factor in the idea that the cost of college is just going through this guy. the earlier you start the better it is. >> absolutely right. experts agree that earlier eighth child get started with a savings account, even a higher likelihood they will have of going to college. a family that saves for college under a savings account, the child has a four times higher likelihood of going to college. the count is under the child's name in seven times more likely. gerri: that is amazing. the me give you a couple of numbers. the rising cost of a college education, tuition a private nonprofit four year colleges of 60. at public 4-yea
it is away for everybody to give to the kids' education. i think this is brilliant, and until you why. here is how much to a spin on holiday cards. what a waste of money. i mean, look at that. you have nnot know much money -- how much money never even gets used? but if rickey use that money instd for something that is really needed linkage among the school. it seems to me to be just eight such -- much more debt idea. you factor in the idea that the cost of college is just going through this...
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was underway and the profiteers who had been sitting rich collecting their tolls for health care and education and housing thought the game might finally be up corporate america had good reason to be afraid as hundreds of billions of dollars in profits were at stake if occupy was if it was successful and things like free universal health care and education were suddenly afforded to everyone but again why was the f.b.i. which has no. health care so concerned about occupied why was the f.b.i. focused on peaceful demonstrators rather than actual criminals on wall street who are routinely committing fraud. to me this is what's most disturbing about all of this we are once again witnessing in america a clash between organized people on one side an organized money on the other it's another one of those turning points in american history where we decide to move forward as a nation and embrace greater equality and economic up opportunity or we regress backward toward new feudalism and seen a phobia and unfortunately at a time when we need our elected representatives in agents of our democratic governm
was underway and the profiteers who had been sitting rich collecting their tolls for health care and education and housing thought the game might finally be up corporate america had good reason to be afraid as hundreds of billions of dollars in profits were at stake if occupy was if it was successful and things like free universal health care and education were suddenly afforded to everyone but again why was the f.b.i. which has no. health care so concerned about occupied why was the f.b.i....
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. >> so to a young person today who's pursuing a career in education, they would also need to be trained and comfortedble with the idea of carrying a weapon? >> unfortunately, this is the world we live in. >> by that logic -- one last thing, david. by that logic, why not arm the students as well. >> because the students are children. you don't arm children. >> an 18-year-old? a high school? an 18-year-old high school senior, i mean, by your logic, they, too, should all be carrying weapons. and the lunch ladies and the bus driver? >> no, but the college kids should be armed. absolutely. they have the right to protect themselves. the government cannot protect us. they can't be everywhere all of the time. the government is this delusional thing. >> david, it's such a complicated segment. i hate to play into the sound byte mentality that this week has become. we're 5% of the world's population and we have 50% of the guns. >> i think today, the nra planted a flag on planet bizaro. i hate to use a sound byte like that. but we have more guns in this country and we have more gun violence in this
. >> so to a young person today who's pursuing a career in education, they would also need to be trained and comfortedble with the idea of carrying a weapon? >> unfortunately, this is the world we live in. >> by that logic -- one last thing, david. by that logic, why not arm the students as well. >> because the students are children. you don't arm children. >> an 18-year-old? a high school? an 18-year-old high school senior, i mean, by your logic, they, too, should...
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so for instance, the department of education study shows that public schools around the country, 28% have a firearm, and 22% a chemical spray and 17% have a stun gun on firepower alone when you look at these tragedy, unfortunately, even when you do have a police and security at those locations they're severely, severely overmatched when it comes to firepower. >> well, i think it shows in columbine, just for example, even there that having armed police officers at the scene at the school didn't stop that attack from happening. look, i have the utmost respect for men and women in uniform who every day put their lives on the line to protect all of us and i'm grateful for their service, but with security and police having them in the schools isn't the primary answer for protecting our children and it's about preventing people from getting these assault weapons in the first place and we can do that most effectively by passing assault weapons ban and eliminating these extended gun clips as being legally sold in the country and we also need more support for mental health services and there
so for instance, the department of education study shows that public schools around the country, 28% have a firearm, and 22% a chemical spray and 17% have a stun gun on firepower alone when you look at these tragedy, unfortunately, even when you do have a police and security at those locations they're severely, severely overmatched when it comes to firepower. >> well, i think it shows in columbine, just for example, even there that having armed police officers at the scene at the school...
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it's something educators call differentiated learning. some students work on basic skills while others advance to more challenging lessons. the learning lab allows a school to hire six fewer teachers, which rocketship says results in savings of up to half a million dollars. that money is used to pay teachers higher salaries, fund academic deans who help teachers get better, and train principals for future rocketship schools. but one thing the savings are not used for: art and music classes. >> i wish we could have art and music in the school but at the same time if you want your child to have that in their life you can make the effort to try and get it after school or on the weekends. >> reporter: the learning lab saves schools a lot of money, but there's just one problem: they're not really working. >> there's definitely an aspect of us kind of not knowing enough about what's going on in learning lab to be able to use that in our classrooms. >> we don't yet get data that says, "okay, teach this differently tomorrow because of what happen
it's something educators call differentiated learning. some students work on basic skills while others advance to more challenging lessons. the learning lab allows a school to hire six fewer teachers, which rocketship says results in savings of up to half a million dollars. that money is used to pay teachers higher salaries, fund academic deans who help teachers get better, and train principals for future rocketship schools. but one thing the savings are not used for: art and music classes....
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education, research, national security. it cuts the hard-working americans and it cuts off 2 million of them. it cuts out doctors. >> may i ask my friend to yield? i just wanted to inquire. i did not understand there is no sequester here. we are dealing with the threat of a sequester and our idea is to hundred $38 billion in spending reductions within the reconciliation bill that passed the house next may. i did not understand. i will yield for an additional 30 seconds. >> when we started out with plan b, there was no sequester plan. there was a mysterious offering last evening. >> there is a plan to respond to this question. $238 billion reduction over a 10-year period of time. >> i thank the gentleman. in the original plan b, there was no sequester planned. you were right in the creative work of your staff. you filed the reconciliation that had been addressed. a lot of us voted against it. all of us voted against it. we understand that plan will have no traction. i thank the gentleman for his work. there is no sequester p
education, research, national security. it cuts the hard-working americans and it cuts off 2 million of them. it cuts out doctors. >> may i ask my friend to yield? i just wanted to inquire. i did not understand there is no sequester here. we are dealing with the threat of a sequester and our idea is to hundred $38 billion in spending reductions within the reconciliation bill that passed the house next may. i did not understand. i will yield for an additional 30 seconds. >> when we...
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yes, education. that's a long-term solution. we need some immediate remedies, and i'm optimistic, i'm hopeful, and i can tell you, we're going to be offering the president thoughts, recommendations, and advocacy. >> no doubt about that. the reverend marcia dyson, the honorable marc morial, thank you both for joining us here tonight. >> thanks so much. >>> kentucky senator mitch mcconnell's connection on the fiscal cliff could cost 25,000 unemployed in his state. details ahead. >>> welcome back. we love hearing from our viewers on twitter and facebook page. many of you were heartened by the success of the los angeles gun buyback program we reported on yesterday. on twitter, michael said, "there needs to be more gun buyback programs nationwide. put food on your table, not guns in your home." sharon omarosa said, "this is the best news ever. i wish my city would do it. but i'm sure there is not a lot of money out there for it." and twitter user dangergirl called the gun buyback program "heartwarming. humanity learning curve in acti
yes, education. that's a long-term solution. we need some immediate remedies, and i'm optimistic, i'm hopeful, and i can tell you, we're going to be offering the president thoughts, recommendations, and advocacy. >> no doubt about that. the reverend marcia dyson, the honorable marc morial, thank you both for joining us here tonight. >> thanks so much. >>> kentucky senator mitch mcconnell's connection on the fiscal cliff could cost 25,000 unemployed in his state. details...
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. >>> armed and educating? parents and teachers question the nra's plan for armed police officers in every school. >>> plus, deal brewing? starbucks pushing congress to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff. wait until you hear about what they're doing to send encouraging notes to our elected leaders. are you optimistic that congress will meet a post-christmas fiscal cliff deal? [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. campbell's has 24 new soups that will make it drop over, and over again. ♪ from jammin' jerk chicken, to creamy gouda bisque. see what's new from campbell's. it's amazing what soup can do. >>> so as newtown, connecticut, recovers from the tragic shooting, police are across new england stepped in to give officers at the town's police department a day off to spend time with their families a
. >>> armed and educating? parents and teachers question the nra's plan for armed police officers in every school. >>> plus, deal brewing? starbucks pushing congress to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff. wait until you hear about what they're doing to send encouraging notes to our elected leaders. are you optimistic that congress will meet a post-christmas fiscal cliff deal? [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news starts with arthritis pain and a...